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October 21. — Down to the store at 9:00 and found 

 Cuninghame paying off some of the men and so chat- 

 tering and wild with fever that he hardly knew what he 

 was doing. Several of us had to exert mild force to 

 get him away, as he was sufficiently out of his head to 

 feel that he ought to work. Twenty men had already 

 started for Fort Hall before this attack came on. 

 Wired them to sit down there until they heard from us; 

 and got Cuninghame to bed. Dined with the New- 

 lands. The other evening Wuznam, the game ranger, 

 was riding along near Nairobi on a motorcycle and was 

 for some distance pursued by a lion! I wonder what 

 sort of game the beast thought he was chasing! And 

 isn't it a ''comic supplement" picture! 



October 22-28 inclusive. — In Nairobi waiting for 

 Cuninghame to get well. We moved him up to New- 

 land 's house. Everybody was most kind to me, and I 

 did not take a dinner at the hotel. Occupied the day- 

 time in making maps, writing, etc. A good deal of rain 

 at night and in showers. 



October 29. — Started at 10:30 for Fort Hall in a 

 twenty-horsepower Minerva touring car that had seen 

 better days. It was a terribly heavy piece of ordnance 

 for its power, but it had four speeds. The chap who 

 drove it was firmly convinced that it could not last 

 much longer anyhow and he might as well use it while 

 it held together. Also the Fort Hall road is no level 

 macadamized boulevard! We charged down hills and 



